Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

There’s a key trait in successful people…they know themselves. When you know yourself, you are better able to protect yourself from others using your own insecurities against you. This is also one of the key traits of successful negotiators…they never let others use them against themselves.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Good leaders focus on the ways to keep their people motivated, and that doesn’t mean they will never challenge them. However, they don’t really challenge the person, they challenge the ideas and thinking of the person, and in this way…they are helping their people grow faster (and keep their motivation).

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

The are two words that never go together – Success and Average. Successful people never settle for average and are always looking to learn and grow every single day. It’s not that they want to be better than others…it’s that they want to be the best they can be.

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The Obvious?

Robert Scoble has a bit of a rant today about the open web being dead and does a bit of trolling against Dave Winer and others who fight for open standards. He may be right. “Most people” may experience the web through closed systems like Facebook and Google+ rather than directly through blogs and RSS. Part of me feels that this is like AOL in the old days and that however attractive walled gardens may be in the short term the open web wins out in the long term. The other part of me wonders if it matters.

What is powerful about the web is our ability to find things and then indicate our feelings about them by linking to them. As David Weinberger says every link is an act of generosity. This may be a direct link from or blog or it may be a “like” in Facebook or a “plus” in Google+ – does it matter?

It matters when people start telling us what we can and can’t link to and that is the risk of proprietary systems. Much of the web is now “owned” by corporate interests and these, while they may provide most people with most of their experience of the web, will ultimately be eroded and replaced by the evolution of the web itself. I am reminded – yet again – of Bob Khan’s point that the hacker mentality will always stay ahead of those attracted to corporate or institutional thinking. Whatever the mass may do most of the time there will always be edglings and to claim that Facebook or Google have killed off the open web is naive.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

People with the ability to handle difficult situations often don’t have all the answers upfront. What they do have is the ability to find those answers quickly in those difficult situations. These people prepare themselves to be both mentally and physically fit, and that enables them to successfully address anything that life throws at them.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

People often say about another person, “He’s smart”. Having wisdom is not about knowing all the answers, but having the great questions and knowing whom to ask. Therefore, you spot smart people by observing what they are asking about, versus what they are talking about.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

People often say about another person, “He’s smart”. Having wisdom is not about knowing all the answers, but having the great questions and knowing whom to ask. Therefore, you spot smart people by observing what they are asking about, versus what they are talking about.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Successful leaders do something that the unsuccessful don’t. Successful leaders always demand more from themselves than they do their people. They strive to be the best role model they can be for their organisation, and a good role model is more about the quality of the person…versus the quantity (busyness) of the person.

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Jim Harris

Here is a great graphic from Think Progress Green from an article by Brad Johnson “AMS Certified Meteorologist Mark Johnson Claims ‘Earth Hasn’t Warmed In 15 Years’ “. It shows how the skeptics make deliberate misinterpretations of temperature data. The graphic can be seen originally at Skeptical Science: Going Down the Up Escalator, Part 1. [...]

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The Obvious?

Banning social sites at work is for wimps – real managers have conversations with their time wasters about wasting time.

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